month of Sundays
a month of Sundays
An extremely long, often indefinite period of time. Often used in negative constructions, especially to mean "never." A: "Do you think Samantha will agree to go on a date with Jake?" B: "Not in a month of Sundays!" We'll be here for a month of Sundays trying to sort through all this paperwork!
See also: month, of, Sundays
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
month of Sundays
Informal An indefinitely long period of time: It will take you a month of Sundays to chop all that wood.
See also: month, of, Sundays
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
month of Sundays, a
A very long time. It is doubtful that this expression, which dates from the early nineteenth century, was ever meant literally—that is, a period of thirty Sundays (or weeks). It first appeared in print in Frederick Marryat’s Newton Forster (1832) and was surely a cliché by the time Ogden Nash played on it in “My Dear, How Did You Ever Think up This Delicious Salad?” (1935): “The salad course nowadays seems to be a month of sundaes.” The British version, a week of Sundays, is never heard in America.
See also: month, of
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
- a month of Sundays
- month
- month of Sundays, a
- Sundays
- breathe
- breathe (something) to (someone)
- do (something) to death
- do something to death
- cough it up
- Cough it up!